On Wednesday 17th November nine ordinary people were sentenced to prison for demanding that the government fulfil its election pledges by insulating Britain’s homes.
The nine, including Emma Smart 44, a scientist and Louis McKechnie 21 both from Weymouth, were convicted of contempt of court for breaking the National Highways’...
Dear Susan Dallison,
On behalf of Dorset Climate Action Network, please could I submit the following statement for the Full Council Meeting on Tuesday 14th December 2021?Statement fromDorset Climate Action Network
Dorset CAN (Dorset Climate Action Network) is a network of community groups and individuals working together for a shared vision of a clean, green, sustainable...
South West Action on Pensions (SWAP) are calling on Brunel Pension Partnership (1) and the 10 authorities they work for (2), to stop using their pension funds to invest in fossil fuels and start using the money to invest in climate-friendly pensions.
SWAP want to see 100% divestment in fossil...
Emma Smart, 44, from Weymouth, Dorset, who has today been in prison on hunger strike for 13 days, was moved out of her cell onto the hospital wing at HMP Bronzefield on Friday. The prison is becoming increasingly concerned about her health.Â
On 17th November Emma, an aunt and biologist...
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.
Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic language, looks like a suicide pact. After so many squandered...
“It’s now day 7 and although I’m inside I can feel the weather changing, chilly air blows through the vent below my cell window.
https://dorseteye.com/weymouth-imprisoned-following-insulate-britain-protests/
One week in on my hunger strike, my thoughts are with those vulnerable, elderly and young families, who as the temperature drops, have to choose between...
This afternoon, over a hundred people have sat down on Lambeth Bridge to break the National Highways super injunction in solidarity with the at least 34 people who have broken these injunctions so far, 9 of whom received prison sentences this week on 17th November. The group of over...
Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?
Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative private interests); the deregulation that lets corporations, oligarchs and landlords squeeze their...
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.
Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic language, looks like a suicide pact. After so many squandered years...
As COP26 closed in Glasgow, The Wildlife Trusts say that:
UK Government shot itself in the foot prior to COP26 by cutting foreign aid, failing to ban new coal mines, and offering support for more oil and gas exploration in UK watersUK Government must increase ambition and speed-up carbon reductionthe...
